at one point to stand by the window and mop his brow, as a signal to a supposed associate outside. As he demonstrates this to the officers, a sealed bank package of £500 (which Gore Hepburn had slipped into his pocket earlier) falls out. Once more the police are sceptical of his innocence. Gore Hepburn tells the police that Hepburn and another man used a tape recorder to disguise their voices and make it seem like Fordyce's family was kidnapped, and that Fordyce is innocent. Fordyce is finally seen as innocent and the police let him go because he was trying to protect his family. Knowing his wife and son are safe, he has changed his opinion of his co-workers for helping him. He goes to the police station with them to talk to his wife and to Hepburn for deceiving him. With a half-smile on his face, he tells Pearson to manage the bank in his absence, assuring him he will be back in a few hours and join them at the staff Christmas party. Cast Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce André Morell as Colonel Gore Hepburn (as Andre Morell) Richard Vernon as Pearson Norman Bird as Arthur Sanderson Kevin Stoney as Detective Inspector Bill Mason Barry Lowe as Peter Harvill Edith Sharpe as Miss Pringle Lois Daine as Sally Alan Haywood as Kane Critical reception Cash on Demand was selected by the film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane as one of the 15 most meritorious British B films made between the Second World War and 1970. They note that it also received enthusiastic reviews at the time of its release from The Monthly Film Bulletin and Kinematograph Weekly. They particularly praise Peter Cushing: "Above all, it is Peter Cushing's performance of the austere man, to whom efficiency matters most (though the film is subtle enough to allow him a certain integrity as well), and who will be frightened into a warmer sense of humanity, that lifts the film well above the perfunctory levels of much 'B' film-making." See also List of Christmas films References External links 1961 films 1960s Christmas films 1961 crime drama films 1960s crime thriller films 1960s heist films British black-and-white films British Christmas films British crime drama films British crime thriller films British heist films Columbia Pictures films Film noir Films about bank robbery Films based on television plays Films directed by Quentin